Reliance Jio 5G-enabled smartphones to cost less than ₹12,000: Report

Reliance Jio is set to roll out standalone 5G services in select metro cities by Diwali this year. During the annual general meeting, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani had announced that the telecom giant is working on developing a 5G smartphone in collaboration with Google. The company had not revealed specifications of the smartphone.

According to a report by Counterpoint Research , the 5G-enabled Jio smartphone might be priced anywhere between ₹8000 and ₹12,000. The report also states that Jio will launch this device after it successfully rolls out the 5G services in metros.

The report states that the new 5G smartphone clears Jio strategy- firstly it will use the JioPhone Next 4G to attract hundreds of millions of 2G phone users to its 4G network and then to attract them for the 5G network.